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I thought plastic soda bottles were recyclable?

My spouse, who has in-laws living in the Cincinnati area, raves about this stuff and has to go a Skyline whenever we visit. I don't see the appeal.

Federal Government Debt Is Soaring: https://www.cato.org/blog/federal-government-debt-soaring Yep, more throwing this nation's children and grandchildren under the bus. For you out their with adult children, do their families have $288K laying around to help cover their portion of the federal debt? I think most do not, yet that bill will come due.

I haven't seen this at a high school football concession stand in probably 20 years. Must be going to the wrong schools. Anybody have a list of what schools still do this? Oh, and just for Coke. Pepsi is an abomination. State Law.

You plan on hiking the whole loop? If so better cache water at 3-4 locations, usually where the trail crosses a road. Have fun!

Stephen Breyer Makes the Liberal Case Against Court Packing https://reason.com/2021/09/02/stephen-breyer-makes-the-liberal-case-against-court-packing/ Wise, wise words from Mr. Breyer.

Indeed it is.

About 10 miles of it several years ago. Then my buddy and I had to bail, long story. Let's just say it's a tough trail, with no reliable water sources along it's 25 mile loop and if you don't cache enough water you could be in for some hurt. How about you? Have you hiked the AHT?

https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/hoosier/recarea/?recid=41554 One of Indiana's Gems. Too bad it is getting "loved to death".

lol, no bears. More a place like this:

Social Security Will Be Insolvent in 12 Years https://reason.com/2021/09/01/social-security-will-be-insolvent-in-12-years/ Agreed. And no @DanteEstonia, just throwing more taxpayer money at SS won't fix it. It's design is deeply flawed.

Is that a Chamber Pot?

It was a question I was positing, hence the question mark (?) at the end of the sentence. Then an esteemed GID member provided an answer to that question. I was under zero compulsion to provides "links" of my own when putting forth such a query. Reading comprehension is your friend. I suggest you practice it. https://inview.doe.in.gov/ It's a serious game played everyday, not just on Friday nights.

NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brief-response This is not remotely accurate as a description of what happened in Skokie. People like eventual ACLU chief Ira Glasser and lawyer David Goldberger had spent much of the sixties fighting for the civil rights movement. The entire justification of these activists and lawyers — Jewish activists and lawyers, incidentally, who despised what neo-Nazi plaintiff Frank Collin stood for — was based not upon a vague notion of preventing “psychological harm,” but on a desire to protect minority rights. In fighting the battles of the civil rights movement, Glasser, Goldberger and others had repeatedly seen in the South tactics like the ones used by localities in and around Chicago with regard to those neo-Nazis, including such ostensibly “constitutional” ploys like requiring massive insurance bonds of would-be marchers and protesters. Years later, Glasser would point to the efforts of Forsyth County, Georgia to prevent Atlanta city councilman and civil rights advocate Hosea Williams from marching there in 1987. “Do you want every little town to decide which speech is permitted?” Glasser asked. Anyone interested in hearing more should watch the documentary about the episode called Mighty Ira. This was the essence of the ACLU’s argument, and it’s the same one made by people like Hugo Black and Benjamin Hooks and congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who said, “It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It has been tried and tried and tried.” The most important problem of speech regulation, as far as speech advocates have been concerned, has always been the identity of the people setting the rules. If there are going to be limits on speech, someone has to set those limits, which means some group is inherently going to wield extraordinary power over another. Speech rights are a political bulwark against such imbalances, defending the minority not only against government repression but against what Mill called “the tyranny of prevailing opinion.” It’s unsurprising that NPR — whose tone these days is so precious and exclusive that five minutes of listening to any segment makes you feel like you’re wearing a cucumber mask at a Plaza spa — papers over this part of the equation, since it must seem a given to them that the intellectual vanguard setting limits would come from their audience. Who else is qualified? By the end of the segment, Marantz and Gladstone seemed in cheerful agreement they’d demolished any arguments against “getting away from individual rights and the John Stuart Mill stuff.” They felt it more appropriate to embrace the thinking of a modern philosopher like Marantz favorite Richard Rorty, who believes in “replacing the whole framework” of society, which includes “not doing the individual rights thing anymore.” It was all a near-perfect distillation of the pretensions of NPR’s current target audience, which clearly feels we’ve reached the blue-state version of the End of History, where all important truths are agreed upon, and there’s no longer need to indulge empty gestures to pluralism like the “marketplace of ideas.” Mill ironically pointed out that “princes, or others who are accustomed to unlimited deference, usually feel this complete confidence in their own opinions on nearly all subjects.” Sound familiar? Yes, speech can be harmful, which is why journalists like me have always welcomed libel and incitement laws and myriad other restrictions, and why new rules will probably have to be concocted for some of the unique problems of the Internet age. But the most dangerous creatures in the speech landscape are always aristocrat know-it-alls who can’t wait to start scissoring out sections of the Bill of Rights. It’d be nice if public radio could find space for at least one voice willing to point that out. Great commentary by Mr. Taibbi. And he's right about the current NPR. Recently listened to an episode of their Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast where they were supposed to discuss their favorite recent Science Fiction & Fantasy novels. Instead 75% of the episode went by with the hosts navel gazing about how "woke" they all were before they even mentioned one title.

Won't be needed. Does the Carmel football palace require them to enter?

Thank you for the geography lesson. Sorry, I'll be camping in the woods somewhere Friday night through Sunday morning. "“And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir

Along the lines of Social Security: Key Medicare Fund Will Be Insolvent in Just Five Years https://reason.com/2021/08/31/key-medicare-fund-will-be-insolvent-in-just-five-years/ Winter indeed.

Those rosters don't really tell anybody whether or not an OMG! Athlete on the Chatard, Roncalli, or Ritter rosters resides within an geographical area defined as "inner-city Indianapolis", but thanks for trying.

Links please.

The likes of Heritage Christian, Cathedral, Chatard, Brebeuf, Roncalli, Secina, Ritter, etc. acquire most of the Indianapolis inner-city OMG! Athletes?

Good for young Mr. Ewers, hope it works out for him. If it doesn't then this GT Sports Marketing may take a big loss, maybe one it can't recover from. The free market at work.

Sorry, here is one by the unassailable Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-sports-football-education-200cef8f86d7e10d7f484de8e8672f5c

Bishop Sycamore loses four football opponents amid controversy: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bishop-sycamore-loses-opponents-controversy